BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
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GENUS VIII. 
THE MUD WORT. (Limosella, Lin.) 
Lin. Syst. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Description, &c. —The only British species belonging to this genus is a little annual plant, which grows only 
in very muddy places, and sends out numerous prostrate runners that take root and produce new plants. The 
flowers are pink, but they are so small as to be almost imperceptible. The name of Limosella is derived from 
limus , mud. 
GENUS IX. 
THE FOXGLOVE. (Digitalis, Lin.) 
Lin. Syst. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character. —Calyx five-parted, unequal. Corolla campanulate ; the limb unequal, obliquely four-lobed. Stigma simple or bilabiate. 
Capsule ovate, acuminate. {Dec.) 
Description, &c. —There is only one species of this beautiful genus which is a native of Britain, viz. the 
common Foxglove ( D. purpurea, Lin.). This species is a biennial, flowering in June and July, and it is common 
in pastures and on hedge-banks in every part of Great Britain. The name of Digitalis signifies the finger of a 
glove, which the flowers greatly resemble. 
GENUS X. 
THE SIBTHORPIA. (Sibthorpia, Lin.) 
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Lin. Syst. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character. —Calyx five-parted. Corolla somewhat rotate; the tube short; the limb regular, five-lobed. Stamens four, didynamous. 
Stigma capitate. Capsule orbicular, compressed, dehiscing at the apex. {Dec.) 
Description, &c. —There is only one species of this genus, viz. the Creeping Sibthorpia, or Cornish Money¬ 
wort (-S'. europcsa). This plant is only found in moist shady places in the south-west of England and south of 
Ireland. The flowers are inconspicuous, but the leaves are very pretty, being nearly round, beautifully scalloped, 
and of a most delicate green. The plant is a perennial, and it flowers from June till October. The name of 
Sibthorpia, was given in honour of Dr. Sibtliorp, Professor of Botany at Oxford. 
GENUS XI. 
THE FIG WORT. (Scrophularia, Lin.) 
Lin. Syst. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character. —Calyx five-lobed. Corolla globose ; the limb I Capsule roundish, acuminate; valves entire, turned inwards at the 
contracted, two-lipped ; the upper lip two-lobed, with an occasional base. {Dec.) 
intermediate scale ; the lower shorter, and three-lobed. Stigma simple. | 
Description, &c. —There are four species of this genus, viz. the common Figwort (-S', nodosa ), the root of 
which is fleshy, and was eaten at the siege of Rochelle; the Water Betony (S. aquatica ), a common weed in 
